Missing minimise and maximise buttons

[Anzan Hoshin Roshi]

On Apr 7, 2012 11:08 AM, "brian" <brian at meadows.pair.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using XFCE for some while with no problem, and when my wife
> decided she'd had enough with the Plasma desktop in the latest KDE, I
> persuaded her to let me switch her to XFCE. We're both running plain
> Debian (she's tracking wheezy, I'm tracking sid).
>
> The problem I have with her setup, which is NOT reproduced on mine, is
> that the minimise and maximise buttons are missing from all her
> applications - and it's not the case that the application is off the
> edge of the screen, even with applications which occupy significantly
> less than the full screen on startup, they're not there. Her list of
> applications is a little restricted - she runs mainly Icedove (a.k.a.
> Thunderbird), Chromium and Libre Office writer and spreadsheet.
>
> I'm at a total loss to understand why this happens. Once I switch her
> back to KDE, they reappear, the change is reversible. Does anyone have
> any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.
>
>

Yes. Make sure xfwm4 is running.

Anzan
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